Ok I have this Rare Poster with the original track listings.
I'll take a better picture later if anyone wants.


The track list is :
Sometimes
Habit
Who You Are
In My Tree
Smile
Hail, Hail

Hail, Hail
I'm Open
Red Mosquito
Lukin
Mankind
Black & Red & Yellow
All Night

Yes Hail, Hail is written twice.
I had the pic way before lost dogs came out and I was hangin to here All Night.

i got these 2 cds given to me from a collector friend (who wasn't all that into pj). anyway the cds are from when no code was in the mastering phase, i guess, and are labeled Gateway Mastering Studios in Portland, ME. the individual tracks all sound the same as the album but it looked like they were brainstorming different album sequences.

CD #1 reads:

Client SONY MUSIC/NY
Artist PEARL JAM
Date 25 JUN 96
Title REVISED ALBUM SEQ. #1

1. SOMETIMES 2:41
2. HAIL HAIL 3:42
3. WHO YOU ARE 3:51
4. IN MY TREE 3:59
5. SMILE 3:52
6. OFF HE GOES 5:59
7. HABIT 3:36
8. RED MOSQUITO 4:03
9. LUKIN 1:00
10. MANKIND 3:29
11. BLACK RED YELLOW 2:58
12. I'M OPEN 2:53
13. PRESENT TENSE 5:49


CD #2 reads:

Client SONY MUSIC/NY
Artist PEARL JAM
Date 25 JUN 96
Title REVISED ALBUM - SEQUENCE #2

EQ CD REFERENCE

1. SOMETIMES 2:41
2. HAIL HAIL 3:42
3. WHO YOU ARE 3:51
4. IN MY TREE 3:59
5. SMILE 3:52
6. OFF HE GOES 5:59
7. HABIT 3:36
8. RED MOSQUITO 4:03
9. LUKIN 1:02
10. PRESENT TENSE 5:47
11. MANKIND 3:29
12. BLACK RED YELLOW 2:59
13. I'M OPEN 2:54
14. AROUND THE BEND 4:35

Here is a mix of pre-album interviews regarding "Avocado" that I compiled into one read.



"It's been a difficult record and it's like sometimes the harder something is, then the more valuable it becomes," frontman Eddie Vedder said during a Brazilian radio interview earlier this week.

"It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again, it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud."

"It's not quite done. I'm hoping to finish the last of the songs while I'm down (in South America). I'm bringing my tape machines and all that down. If I can come back and finish the last few songs in January, then it will be out in April or something."

"We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out," Vedder said.

"There's a lot more up-tempo stuff," says drummer Matt Cameron. "It's a lot more rockin' than our last one." Song titles like "Severed Hand," "Worldwide Suicide" and "2x4" seem to reflect that harder edge. Though the track listing has not been finalized, other candidates include "Marker" and "Cold Concession."

Cameron, who teamed with guitarist Mike McCready on the track "Unemployable," characterizes the sessions as more collaborative. "We reworked everything together in the studio," he says. "It's a really healthy environment -- everyone really just wants to dig in and make the songs as good as they can be."

"There's a sense that we've done something special," says guitarist Stone Gossard of the sessions. "Everyone's been writing and participating in it . . . Asking a guy in the band how good the record is problematic, but to me it's freaking brilliant."

And while his bandmates have been ordering in from El Gaucho or Kidd Valley while recording Pearl Jam's next album, McCready packs his lunch. Chili. Sturgeon. Yogurt he has made himself, fermenting it for 24 hours to kill the enzymes, and touching it with honey.

"I am really excited about the new record so far...The early mixes sound incredible. Ed is singing like I have never heard him before. With every ounce of his being and soul he is propelling the songs to a classic status. The band is firing on all cylinders making this record, we are right in the middle of recording and feel that this is the best record we have ever done."

Guitarist McCready calls new songs "hard-rocking," with nods to punk and the Who.

"It's a classic Pearl Jam record -- it's got the excitement of Vs. to it," guitarist Mike McCready says of the new CD his band has spent the past eight months recording in Seattle. "There's some powerful singing, and the music is pretty hard-rocking."

Produced by Adam Casper (Soundgarden), the follow-up to 2002's Riot Act will be the band's first for J Records. "It's really freeing to be on a new label," McCready says. "It feels like a brand new relationship and their excitement makes us feel confident about it."

McCready is especially psyched about "Severed Hand," a "heavy rocker" written by Gossard and "Worldwide Suicide," penned by Vedder. "['Worldwide'] is very punky and Who-ish," Gossard says. "It'll catch your attention."

"We all came up with different songs for ourselves," McCready says. "We came in, edited and kicked out ideas. Ed's been a hardcore workhorse, experimenting with intense, layered vocals. It's hard-edge with some pop feel."

The long recording lull hasn't hurt Pearl Jam, Ament said, because playing with the band is "kind of like riding a bike at this point." In fact, for the first time since the sessions for 1993's Vs., the always-behatted bassist said Pearl Jam have been collaborating on the material, rather than coming into the process with the songs already written.

"We came together kind of with the idea of not bringing any complete songs initially, and just coming in with riffs and trying to write a bunch of stuff together," Ament explained. "We probably ended up writing 10 things as a band, like full-on collaborations with everybody in the room. It feels great. The collaborated songs somehow, to me, feel better — I think just because everybody had a little say, and everybody kind of got a little piece of their personality in it. It makes us feel like a band."

So far, the band's written a total of 25 songs, but the final track listing will have around a dozen songs — and the decision about which tracks make the final cut largely rests with "Ed, because he's writing 95 percent of the lyrics," Ament said.

Ament singled out two other tracks as his current favorites. "One is called 'Of the Earth,' that's a song Ed wrote that is kind of a cross between early Peter Gabriel/ Genesis and Sleater-Kinney with, like, the Who's Live at Leeds or something. There's also a song that Stone brought in that Ed wrote some great lyrics to [a song] called 'Parachutes.' That's probably one of my favorite pieces of music that Stone has written in a long time. It's got a beautiful melody."

As for the focus of Vedder's lyrical direction, or whether the album would convey any specific themes, Ament wasn't so sure.

"There's some imagery that makes me think that he's talking about the state of the union, but he's so good with words that sometimes I think it could actually end up being about a friend of his or a relationship that he's witnessed," he said. "He's so sensitive to so many different things that he can pull things out of some pretty interesting places and combine them with politics or religion or whatever. I think there's a lot of nature involved in the stuff — that's the thing that I relate to the most, the imagery around nature and wanting to keep it intact."

found this somewhere (not sure if it's been already posted)


Seattle rockers Pearl Jam have finished recording their currently untitled new album. They completed the extensive recording process just last week in Seattle.

Guitarist Stone Gossard believes that the unusually long recording effort will be understood when the public hears the album. "This is the best music, as a collective, that we have written... probably ever", says Gossard. He says that "while we have experimented and extended ourselves once again, the simplicity and edge of our writing this time can be heard - these songs are all ones we are very proud of".

While a lot of the album is "as heavy and bone-crunching as our earlier material", Gossard is most proud of the melodic songs such as "Dawn" - written over 4 months by co-guitarist Mike McCready - and the Who-like "Alarms Of Nautical", by Gossard himself.

"We are always expected to have a heavy tilt in our songs, and we have done that here and love doing that. But this album feels more than a bunch of rock songs like our last couple... and not to demean those... but this was a massive ride for us, a big jump, and we hope it can be heard".

The first song, "To Our Home", is a quiet song by lead singer Eddie Vedder, unmistakeably about his new baby girl. "Yeah we let Ed indulge on that one a bit there, but it is a fantastic, pretty track to start off. After that we blow the amps (laughs)".

The track listing is as follows:

01. To Our Home (Vedder)
02. Marker (Gossard/Vedder)
03. Dawn (McCready)
04. Crapshoot Rapture (Gossard/McCready/Ament)
05. Worldwide Suicide (Gossard/McCready)
06. Severed Hand (Vedder)
07. Echoes (Vedder/Gossard/McCready/Ament/Cameron)
08. Cold Concession (Cameron)
09. Alarms Of Nautical (Gossard)
10. The Streets (Vedder)
11. Of The Earth (Vedder/Gossard/McCready/Ament/Cameron)

The first single (to be released in November) will be "Echoes" with the non-album B-Sides "Thank You" and "I Believe In Miracles Live 9/1/05". The band, currently on tour in Canada, will visit Latin America in November before releasing the album in early December. Although no certain dates have been made, manager Kelly Curtis has confirmed a possible 2006 tour of Australia and New Zealand, followed by a full-scale visit to Europe.

Here is a mix of pre-album interviews regarding "Avocado" that I compiled into one read.



"It's been a difficult record and it's like sometimes the harder something is, then the more valuable it becomes," frontman Eddie Vedder said during a Brazilian radio interview earlier this week.

"It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again, it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud."

"It's not quite done. I'm hoping to finish the last of the songs while I'm down (in South America). I'm bringing my tape machines and all that down. If I can come back and finish the last few songs in January, then it will be out in April or something."

"We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out," Vedder said.

"There's a lot more up-tempo stuff," says drummer Matt Cameron. "It's a lot more rockin' than our last one." Song titles like "Severed Hand," "Worldwide Suicide" and "2x4" seem to reflect that harder edge. Though the track listing has not been finalized, other candidates include "Marker" and "Cold Concession."

Cameron, who teamed with guitarist Mike McCready on the track "Unemployable," characterizes the sessions as more collaborative. "We reworked everything together in the studio," he says. "It's a really healthy environment -- everyone really just wants to dig in and make the songs as good as they can be."

"There's a sense that we've done something special," says guitarist Stone Gossard of the sessions. "Everyone's been writing and participating in it . . . Asking a guy in the band how good the record is problematic, but to me it's freaking brilliant."

And while his bandmates have been ordering in from El Gaucho or Kidd Valley while recording Pearl Jam's next album, McCready packs his lunch. Chili. Sturgeon. Yogurt he has made himself, fermenting it for 24 hours to kill the enzymes, and touching it with honey.

"I am really excited about the new record so far...The early mixes sound incredible. Ed is singing like I have never heard him before. With every ounce of his being and soul he is propelling the songs to a classic status. The band is firing on all cylinders making this record, we are right in the middle of recording and feel that this is the best record we have ever done."

Guitarist McCready calls new songs "hard-rocking," with nods to punk and the Who.

"It's a classic Pearl Jam record -- it's got the excitement of Vs. to it," guitarist Mike McCready says of the new CD his band has spent the past eight months recording in Seattle. "There's some powerful singing, and the music is pretty hard-rocking."

Produced by Adam Casper (Soundgarden), the follow-up to 2002's Riot Act will be the band's first for J Records. "It's really freeing to be on a new label," McCready says. "It feels like a brand new relationship and their excitement makes us feel confident about it."

McCready is especially psyched about "Severed Hand," a "heavy rocker" written by Gossard and "Worldwide Suicide," penned by Vedder. "['Worldwide'] is very punky and Who-ish," Gossard says. "It'll catch your attention."

"We all came up with different songs for ourselves," McCready says. "We came in, edited and kicked out ideas. Ed's been a hardcore workhorse, experimenting with intense, layered vocals. It's hard-edge with some pop feel."

The long recording lull hasn't hurt Pearl Jam, Ament said, because playing with the band is "kind of like riding a bike at this point." In fact, for the first time since the sessions for 1993's Vs., the always-behatted bassist said Pearl Jam have been collaborating on the material, rather than coming into the process with the songs already written.

"We came together kind of with the idea of not bringing any complete songs initially, and just coming in with riffs and trying to write a bunch of stuff together," Ament explained. "We probably ended up writing 10 things as a band, like full-on collaborations with everybody in the room. It feels great. The collaborated songs somehow, to me, feel better — I think just because everybody had a little say, and everybody kind of got a little piece of their personality in it. It makes us feel like a band."

So far, the band's written a total of 25 songs, but the final track listing will have around a dozen songs — and the decision about which tracks make the final cut largely rests with "Ed, because he's writing 95 percent of the lyrics," Ament said.

Ament singled out two other tracks as his current favorites. "One is called 'Of the Earth,' that's a song Ed wrote that is kind of a cross between early Peter Gabriel/ Genesis and Sleater-Kinney with, like, the Who's Live at Leeds or something. There's also a song that Stone brought in that Ed wrote some great lyrics to [a song] called 'Parachutes.' That's probably one of my favorite pieces of music that Stone has written in a long time. It's got a beautiful melody."

As for the focus of Vedder's lyrical direction, or whether the album would convey any specific themes, Ament wasn't so sure.

"There's some imagery that makes me think that he's talking about the state of the union, but he's so good with words that sometimes I think it could actually end up being about a friend of his or a relationship that he's witnessed," he said. "He's so sensitive to so many different things that he can pull things out of some pretty interesting places and combine them with politics or religion or whatever. I think there's a lot of nature involved in the stuff — that's the thing that I relate to the most, the imagery around nature and wanting to keep it intact."

Here is the original Binaural tracklisting, supposedly.


Breakherfall
Insignificance
Evacuation
Letter To The Dead
Rival
Grievance
Light Years
Of The Girl
Thin Air
Nothing As It Seems
Fatal
Sleight Of Hand
Soon Forget
In The Moonlight
Parting Ways
Education

That website is unbelievably interesting

GREAAT post/thread

love history and rmers who love history, of any kind... pj recording guide is an also source of info too!

thanks

When in 2005 interviews with bandmembers showed up they we're talking alot about the upcoming record and how exctited they were making it.

Not long after those interview lists like this showed up aswell (could be false or mistitled):

1. 2X4
2. Her
3. Driving Your Point Home
4. Rusted nail
5. Armor
7. Cigarette War
8. Basic Human
9. Silver Lining
10. Marked
11. Goodbye
12. Harker's Revenge
13. Winter
14. Cold Concession
15. Keep Up
16. Last Day
18. Hand Dealt
19. Frost bitten
21. Tripping
22. Postcards
23. Simple
24. Statement


And there was an article/statement about the upcoming worldwide suicide single:

' Pearl Jam will release a first single on March 13th called Worldwide
Suicide with two unreleased b-sides: 'Walkin' Man' and 'Deepest
Thing'''

"Nothingman" should have been the Vitalogy sessions HTI: a good song that doesn't fit on an album, similar to I got Id, probably with "100 Pacer" as the b-side. Could have put it all on to Merkinball, along with "Off He Goes" and "Falling Down," and maybe even Around the Bend, although "Around the Bend" is No Code's HTI

If Brain of J then would have made it onto No Code (if Lukin made it on No Code, Brain of J easily could have), along with All Night, we'd have quite a different album.

And I think Satan's Bed is a throwaway song, which probably should have been on Lost Dogs

What was Falling Down?